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The Government spent more than £400,000 on PR consultants to promote its Green Deal energy efficiency scheme, which has resulted in only 12 homes installing measures such as new boilers.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change said, in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act, that it had paid Freud, a PR agency, £350,000 last year for “consumer research and marketing” for the launch of the Green Deal. In the first five months of this financial year, it paid Freud £63,000 for “consumer media and marketing”.